Helen Zia Quotes & Sayings

In New York, I'm playing in a church, solo, doing instrumental stuff. There's talk of doing more, like, installation-type things with some of the specimen horns I've played through. Just filling a room in a museum with these horn-speaker sculptures and then making loops that run all day, and you walk around the room and sort of mix the sound by where you stand. That's all way in the future, but that kind of stuff is a different way of thinking about performing. — Andrew Bird

It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later. — Ramana Maharshi

You'll see that excuses like "That's not easy" are of no value and that it pays to "push through it" at a pace you can handle. Like getting physically fit, the most important thing is that you keep moving forward at whatever pace you choose, recognizing the consequences of your actions. — Ray Dalio

More than two hundred Aberowen men were killed on the first day of July, there on the banks of the Somme River. I have been told that the total of British casualties is over fifty thousand! — Ken Follett

My heart goes out to anyone who is making his first appearance before an audience of human beings. — Mark Twain

I did have a nice career in print, but traditional publishers don't always have the resources to create individualized marketing for their authors. Mine never figured out how to package books as hot as mine so that they found their full audience. Finally, I got frustrated enough over my lack of traction to walk away. — Emma Holly

I've been acting my whole life, which people don't realize. I just haven't had the opportunities that I've had with my dancing. — Julianne Hough

I don't know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us don't want to call it marriage, because we think that word has religious connotations, and we're not ready to see it used in ways that offend us. — Tony Campolo

...you see what you want
and you want what you see,
but if I have anything to say about it,
that will
never
be
me. — Holly Bodger